Sony PSX all-in-one game console to hit Japan stores by year-end
Posted on 07/10/03 18:42 by Dennis                             
Sony PSX all-in-one game console to hit Japan stores by year-end

Today the Sony Corp. has announced that their new Sony PSX console will begin selling in Japan by the year-end. The PSX will feature a normal PlayStation 2 game player but besides that it will also have a satellite TV tuner, a DVD recorder and a hard disk drive recorder. Our thanks goes to GristyMcFisty who spotted this news over at Yahoo! News:

A version with a 160-gigabyte HDD will sell for 79,800 yen (US$ 719) and be able to record up to 204 hours of television, the company said. It will also sell a 250-gigabyte version for 99,800 yen.

Sony plans to market the PSX as a consumer electronics product and aims to pitch the box as a do-everything entertainment console for games, music and movies.

The company's games division has developed cutting-edge semiconductors for the PS2 and the original PlayStation, but it is the upcoming PlayStation machine that has people buzzing about the integration of electronics and games.

Sony plans to invest 500 billion yen over the next three years in semiconductors, including research and development for a high-powered microprocessor codenamed "cell" that is being developed with Toshiba Corp and IBM.

The chip is expected to power Sony's next-generation game console, but the company aims to make "cell" the global standard for consumer electronics in the high-speed Internet era.

Source: Yahoo! News

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By DanDaMan1487, Wed 8 Oct 2003 00:56
DanDaMan1487Basically the same thing my modded XBOX is (with 120Gig HD), except for the added TV tuners and recorders... And I paid much much less than $719!!!
By spar, Thu 9 Oct 2003 00:14
Let's do the math (and very roughly so since there aren't any details): 1 satellite tuner e200 1 160Gb HD e150 1 dvd burner e200 1 ps2 e179 that totals to e729, so at the very least it sounds like a reasonable price. And bear in mind that they're all Sony parts, so all these items (except the HD) bought seperately will cost a bit more than this (since I didn't bother to find Sony parts/prices in the above list Wink)
[edited by spar on 09.10.2003 00:18]
By SiC, Thu 9 Oct 2003 01:24
Spar, actually it would be more reasonable to calculate it as: 1. Settop DVD/HDD Recorder 2. Sattelite Tuner 3. PS2 4. PS2 BroadBand Unit If you total that up all together it would be like 1400 US Dollars.
[edited by SiC on 09.10.2003 01:26]
By Shadowman69, Fri 10 Oct 2003 13:30
When mod chips will be available this could be a really versatile entertainment machine at a good price biggrin We have to wait and see the software, both official and homebrew, that will be available for this little monster. Stick Out Tongue

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